Courses
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First Semester Core: Landscape Architecture Design
The first of a four-term sequence of landscape design and planning studios, this course introduces the vocabulary for describing, analyzing, and designing landscapes. A series…
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Third Semester Core: Planning and Design of Landscapes
Christian Werthmann, Paul Cote, Pierre Bélanger, Jane Hutton
This course reinforces and builds upon the range of conventions of landscape architectural production introduced in previous core studios and academic courses. Emphasis is placed…
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The Greek City of Edessa: Search for a Sustainable Future
Martha Schwartz, Spiro Pollalis
Tuesdays and WednesdaysEdessa, a small historic town in northern Greece, faces an uncertain future. Its potential to regenerate diminishes as they lose their young population…
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Designing the Ecology of Democracy: Speculations on National Identity, Free Speech, the American Elm, and the Nation’s Front Yard
Gary R. Hilderbrand, Gareth Doherty
GSD 1402, Hilderbrand, Fall 2009DESIGNING THE ECOLOGY OF DEMOCRACY: SPECULATIONS ON NATIONAL IDENTITY, FREE SPEECH, THE AMERICAN ELM, AND THE NATION???S FRONT YARD\”The Mall, far…
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Boston Botany Bay: The Naked Garden as Spectacle of Plant Psycho-Geography
Eelco Hooftman, Bridget Baines
\”Gardeners are not only botanists, but also painters and philosophers\”William Chambers: A dissertation on oriental gardening (London, 1772)\”What seems to me the highest and the…
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Toward an Industrial Ecology for New Caofeidian
AN INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY FOR NEW CAOFEIDIAN Professor: Nanako Umemoto [email protected] Teaching Associate: Neil Cook [email protected]: A Chinese model of development? \”China can no…
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Studies in Landscape Representation 1
This introductory course surveys the history, conventions, and techniques of drawing landscapes and their elements. Topics include:1. Mechanical drawing; graphic techniques and technical conventions for…
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Intermediate Drawing
This is an intermediate course in drawing, open to landscape, urban design, and architecture students (also MDes). The initial intent of the class is to…
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Dioramic Modes in Landscape Architecture
This seminar/workshop explores the practical and theoretical potential of the diorama as a robust set of representational operations in the design and description of landscape…
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Landscape Planning for the 21st Century: Paradigms, Practices & Projects
Responding to contemporary ecological pressures and decaying infrastructures, this course brings together a series of influential thinkers and researchers from the design commons across North…
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MLA I AP Proseminar
This course surveys multiple definitions of landscape architecture. Rather than seeking a singular understanding of the field, the seminar postulates that landscape might be understood…
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Studies of the Built North American Environment: 1580 to the Present
North America as an evolving visual environment is analyzed as a systems concatenation involving such constituent elements as farms, small towns, shopping malls, highways, suburbs,…
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History of Landscape Architecture I
This course presents a history of landscape architecture between 1850 and 1950, with a particular emphasis on the Western world. By studying the projects and…
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North American Seacoasts and Landscapes: Discovery Period to the Present
Selected topics in the history of the North American coastal zone, including the seashore as wilderness, as industrial site, as area of recreation, and as…
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Fifteen Things (a secret history of Italian design)
Fifteen Things (a secret history of Italian design) Department of Architecture Seminar – 4 credits limited enrollment Tuesday 2:00 – 5:00 510 Gund HallFifteen Things…
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Proseminar in History, Theory and Urban Design
Proseminar in History, Theory and Urban Design K. Michael Hays, Timothy Hyde Department of Urban Planning and Design Seminar – 4 credits Monday 12:00 –…
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Site Ecology and Environment
This course is required for all incoming MLA1 AP students and MLA1 students returning for their second year. The course will present the principles of…
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Ecology, Plants and Technology I
Laura Solano, Matthew Urbanski
This is the first in the core sequence of Ecology, Plants and Technology courses. The first module emphasizes the identification of prominent plants in the…
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Sustainability for Planning and Design
This survey course will establish basic environmental literacy for all the departments at the school. A series of lecturers will address key issues for planners…
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Plants and Technology I
This course focuses on understanding basic biological principles and horticultural practices that influence the growth of plants and ultimately determine the success or failure of…
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Landscape Ecology
This course examines the ecological structure, functioning, and change of a mosaic of natural systems and land uses, such as woods, wetlands, fields, streams, roads,…
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Brownfields Practicum: Regeneration and Reuse of Brownfield Lands
\”A Brownfields Site is real property, the expansion, redevelopment, or reuse of which may be complicated by the presence, or potential presence of a hazardous…
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Sustainable Plants for a Changing World
Summary: This seminar course meets once per week for 3 hours and will focus on the nature of the interaction between plants and the environments…
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Leading the Design Firm
Andreas Georgoulias, Richard Jennings, Brian Kenet
This course introduces GSD students to the business side of the design industry and attempts to highlight both the ways in which a design firm…
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Independent Studio by Candidates for Master’s Degrees
An individual design studio may be arranged to develop a concept or problem not available in regularly offered studios. Students must submit an independent studio…
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Preparation of Thesis for Master in Landscape Architecture
John Beardsley, Charles Waldheim
Prerequisites: Graduate standing and approval by the landscape architecture faculty.In this preparatory seminar for students intending to enroll in GSD 9303 the following term, direction…
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Independent Study by Candidates for Doctoral Degrees
George L. Legendre, Peter Rowe, Christoph Reinhart, Erika Naginski
Under faculty guidance, the student conducts a reading program and formulates a thesis proposal. The course is intended for doctoral students.